Chesapeake Bay Writers

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January 16, 2017 Gail Priest Radio

On January 16th, host Neal Steele discussed Gail Priest's new release, Annie Crow Knoll: Moonrise, a story about the power to reinvent life after surviving loss and trauma.

Breezy and Jemma, are world-class cyclists until violence at a race leaves Breezy with permanent physical disabilities and kills the man she loved. With her Olympic dream shattered, guilt and shame threaten to destroy her future happiness. Her sister Jemma escapes with only minor injuries, but the psychological damage she experiences shakes her self-worth, her Olympic potential, and her capacity to accept love.

The young women return to Annie Crow Knoll, their childhood home on the Chesapeake Bay, to heal and reclaim their lives, and with their parents and grandparents, struggle to make sense of life after this tragic and irrational incident

Her third novel in this fiction series, Annie Crow Knoll: Moonrise, can also be read as a stand alone. It is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iBooks. less

2016 All Stars Gala Luncheon at the Two Rivers Country Club in Williamsburg

Wednesday, November 16!
Call 804-725-6163 for late reservations.

LAST CALL! 2016 All Stars Gala Luncheon at the Two Rivers Country Club in Williamsburg
Wednesday, November 16!
11 a.m. Social Hour with Cash Bar; Noon Lunch followed by the readings.

Share your work and compete for prizes. Sign up form will be posted online here soon! You must register for both the luncheon and the contest to participate.

Choice of:
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Classic Caesar Salad
Crisp Romaine, Garlic Croutons, Parmigiano Reggiano with Grilled Chicken Breast
Or

Reuben
Pastrami with Swiss Cheese, Sauerkraut, 1000 Island Dressing on Rye Bread served with Potato Chips
Or

Vegetarian Burger
Lettuce, Tomato, Provolone Cheese and Smoked Paprika Aioli on Whole Wheat Bun served with Potato Chips
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Freshly Baked Rolls and Butter
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Crème Brulee
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Coffee and Tea

$21 Members $26 Nonmembers Please reply by November 11.

Questions? CBWreply@gmail.com
(804) 725-6163

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October 10, 2016 Sharon Dillon

Neal Steele interviewed Sharon Dillon about her new book, Echoes of Your Choices, on Monday, October 10th.

Echoes of Your Choices guides readers to find peace, joy and laughter in their stressful lives. Compiled from “Thoughts to Ponder” (Sharon’s acclaimed blog of many years), the short lessons in this book mark a steady journey through the turbulence and vicissitudes of ordinary life.

Compassion and forgiveness of self and others are themes underlying this journey. The author demonstrates that life must be fun as well as serious and spiritual as well as practical. Her lessons utilize a wide-angle lens to view the world and the people who inhabit it.

Quoting Maya Angelou, Rev. Angela Peregoff, Albert Einstein, Martha Beck, Oprah Winfrey and an eclectic assortment of historical, literary and contemporary figures, Sharon applies their teachings and philosophies to the life she has known. This is a life guaranteed to look familiar to the reader! less

CBW Luncheon Meeting - September 15, 2016 "Experiences in Writing African-American History"

Presented by Educator Storyteller Historian Daisy Howard-Douglas

Author and storyteller Daisy Howard-Douglasl spoke at the Chesapeake Bay Writers luncheon meeting Thursday, September 15 at the White Dog Bistro in Mathews. She shared her experiences in writing AfricanAmerican history, the difficulties in locating information sources and some of the surprises she encountered.



                                  Photo by Lynn E. Norris
                                     Director Kinsale Museum

“Miss Daisy,” as she is known to those close to her, credits her storytelling skills and great love of storytelling to her father, Papa Linzy, and his great grandfather, Grampa Tibbs, a former slave on a plantation near Richmond. Her contributions to her community and the state of Virginia are numerous. She has more than 100 awards, certificates, and trophies honoring her humanitarian efforts. The retired educator has published ten books including Jad and Old Annanias, Daisy’s Bayou Tales, They Came from Virginia, and African-American Military, Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Howard-Douglas founded the Westmoreland Weavers of the Word Storytellers’ Guild in 1998 and writes human-interest stories for local newspapers. Her research and advocacy led to the placement of four highway markers highlighting the contributions of Westmoreland County’s African Americans--a buffalo soldier, two revolutionary soldiers, the oldest Baptist church, and famed Tuskegee Airmen. She assisted the Northumberland County’s marker committee honoring a former slave, The Reverend Paymus Nutt, who was the founder of four Baptist churches in the area, First Baptist Church, Zion—Lottsburg, Shiloh, and Lively Hope.

She now resides in Sandy Point, Virginia (Westmoreland County, the birthplace of George Washington and James Monroe. She and her husband, James Allen, have one daughter, Jewel Linzy. She enjoys reading, traveling, creative writing and storytelling.

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Sept 12, 2016 Feather Schwartz Foster

On September 12th, Neal Steele interviewed Feather Schwartz Foster as the Chesapeake Bay Writers featured guest on the CBW Second Monday Show on Xtra 99.1 FM (xtra99.com).

They discussed Feather’s new book, Mary Lincoln’s Flannel Pajamas and other Stories from the First Ladies’ Closet. Feather describes it as “lively assortment of real stories about the ‘old’ First Ladies, via an article of their clothing - a gown or hat, a piece of jewelry or shoes.”

The podcast will be online soon! less

May, 2016 David Cariens

David Cariens

Author of The America We All Want: Protecting Your Community from Gun Violence

Tune in to XTRA 99.1FM to hear the Author interviewed by Neal Steele on CBW's Second Monday monthly broadcast, May 9th at about 8:05AM. If you miss the live broadcast, click here.

About the Book

Mass slaughter on school grounds, in theaters, in churches, and in shopping malls may be the most serious and complex problem in this nation’s history. Solving the problem will take careful and deliberate thought, but thinking is hard work and there are no easy solutions. Those few who do propose ways to reduce the epidemic of gun violence are met with a fusillade of emotions on why their ideas won’t work.

Retired CIA analyst Dave Cariens gives the reader hands-on suggestions and strategies to curb gun violence. He presents evidence showing where practical application of these strategies has worked in communities all over the country.

Recognizing the stalemate in Washington, this is a guide to action at the local level.

Mary Montague Sikes, Author of Evening of the Dragonfly

About the Author

Mary Montague Sikes grew up near the bloody Civil War battlefields of Central Virginia where thousands died. Those early years in a landscape where tears still flowed sparked her interest in the psychic and the paranormal that carries over into her writing today.

Sikes loves to travel, especially to the Caribbean and Jamaica where she discovered the legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall Great House that inspired her first novel, Hearts Across Forever. More psychic encounters in Sedona, Arizona led to her novel, Eagle Rising. Adventures in Antigua became the book, Secrets by the Sea. Then, an escapade in Trinidad developed into the story of Night Watch. Her love of "Indiana Jones" type quests took her to the Maya Ruins of Palenque and eventually directed her to write Jungle Jeopardy.

She has been told by readers that her novel, Daddy's Christmas Angel, set in a small fictitious American town, is the "best book I've ever read". The romance is a little like "Sleepless in Seattle" and has a happy ending.An artist before she was an author, Mary Montague Sikes has a scrapbook with drawings she made as a two-year-old. Like Farrah Ferand in Evening of the Dragonfly, she spends many hours each month in a painting studio built over her garage. When she isn't writing or painting, she enjoys travel to exotic destinations that might one day become part of her Passenger to Paradise book series.

About the Book

Threatening telephone calls and strange cars with dark-tinted windows plague artist/teacher Farrah Ferand. Recovering from the tragic loss of her mother, Farrah is trying to adapt to the life of a small-town art teacher when she encounters Dirk Lawrence, a mysterious stranger. Her attraction to him is immediate and electric until Farrah discovers Dirk is part of the Lawrence and Pendesky investment firm that led to her mother's downfall a few years earlier. Farrah's not too perfect dating relationship with Tom Douglas, the town favorite football coach, worsens.An unexpected encounter leads to dates with Dirk and his help with the construction of a dream art studio in her rented house. But trouble looms with Tom who believes he and Farrah are engaged, and the entire town appears to be drawn in. Haunting dreams and lost memories overwhelm Farrah as she creates paintings for a one-person art show. Will shadows of the past ruin all hope for Farrah and Dirk?